Dilworth, Thomas.

Thomas Dilworth was born in Detroit, Mich., on March 31, 1945. He received his B.A. degree at St. Michael's College, Toronto, and his M.A. and Ph. D. at the University of Toronto. Dr. Dilworth is University Professor of English at the University of Windsor, Ontario, where he has taught since 1977. He is an expert on the life and works of David Jones and has written 'The shape of meaning in the poetry of David Jones' as well as edited 'Inner necessities: the letters of David Jones to Desmond Chute'.

Harman (Joseph Gerard) Grisewood was born on Feb. 8, 1906, at Wormleybury, Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, England, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Harman Grisewood and Lucille Geneviève (Cardozo) Grisewood. He was educated at Ampleforth College and at Worcester College, Oxford, where he received a degree in English literature in 1927. Mr. Grisewood began his long association with the BBC in 1929 as a member of the repertory company. From 1933 until his retirement in 1964 he was successively an announcer; assistant to the program officer; assistant director of program planning; assistant controller of the European Division; acting controller of the European Division; director of talks; planner and then controller of the Third Programme; director of the spoken word; and, lastly, chief assistant to the director-general. He was editor of 'The Dublin review' from 1949 to 1952 and vice-president of the European Broadcasting Union from 1953 to 1954. He also served on several official government bodies, including the Lord Chancellor's Committee on Defamation and the Younger Committee on Privacy. Among the awards and honors given Mr. Grisewood were the King Christian X Freedom Medal, 1946, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, 1960, and Knight of the Order of Malta, 1960. Mr. Grisewood was the author of an autobiography, 'One thing at a time' (1968), and two novels, 'The recess' (1963) and 'The last cab on the rank' (1964). In addition, he edited several works by his friend David Jones: 'Epoch and artist : selected writings' (1959), 'The dying Gaul, and other writings' (1978), and, with René Hague, 'The Roman quarry and other sequences' (1981). Harman Grisewood died on Jan. 8, 1997 at Eye, Suffolk, England. He was survived by his wife, Margaret, neé Bailey, and a daughter, Sabina.

René Hague was born of Irish parents in London, England, in 1905. He was educated at Ampleforth College, Yorkshire, as was his friend Harman Grisewood. He was an outstanding pupil and won a scholarship to study classics at Oriel College, Oxford, but did not remain there, and in 1924, at age 19, went to live at Capel-y-ffin, Wales, with Father Joseph Woodford, OSB, a monk of Caldey. In Aug. 1924 Eric Gill arrived with his family at Capel-y-ffin, having left Ditchling, Sussex, where he had lived and worked since 1907 with fellow Catholic craftsmen such as Hilary Pepler, printer and founder of St. Dominic's Press. Hague spent another year at Cape-y-ffin, during this period meeting David Jones through Gill. The next five years, from about 1924 to 1929, Hague spent in London where he worked in George Coldwell's second-hand Catholic bookshop in Red Lion Passage, Holborn. While in London, Hague's friendship with David Jones grew. He was introduced to Jones' circle, which included Jim and Helen Ede, Dr. Charles Burns and his brother Tom Burns, as well as Bernard Wall and Harman Grisewood. In 1930 Gill moved to a farmhouse at Pigotts in Buckinghamshire and set up the Pigotts Press with Hague. At this time Hague married Gill's daughter, Joan. The press was closed in 1941 after Gill's death, was reestablished in 1946, and then was shut down permanently in 1956. Its records show that it printed for nearly twenty publishers including Faber & Faber, J.M. Dent, Sheed & Ward, The Harvill Press, Rupert Hart-Davis, Cassell, and Collins. In the words of Barbara Wall, "The most outstanding printing achievement of Hague & Gill was David Jones' book ... 'In parenthesis', published by Faber & Faber in 1937." In 1963 Joan and René Hague moved from Pigotts to Shanagarry, Cork, Ireland, where they resided until their respective deaths on Dec. 25, 1980 and Jan. 19, 1981.